Altenew Dynamic Die Cutting Blog Hop + Giveaway (CLOSED)

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Die-cutting has a sweet spot in my heart. Don’t get me wrong – I love different techniques. Stamping, embossing, ink blending. But sometimes I feel like not getting out stamps at all and only play with dies.

Also.. I’m a very seasonal person and tend to have a lot of traditions related to different seasons.

Like for example the whole October I watch horror and supernatural movies to be primed for Halloween (keep in mind that I came from the country where we don’t celebrate Halloween and I only celebrate it for 4-5 years). Or for example I don’t like pumpkin taste. When I was growing up I had only a couple of products i couldn’t eat as they were totally non tasty for me. Pumpkin was one of those.
But after coming to US where fall and pumpkins are inseparable I started liking it. Of course when it comes to decor I have dozens of those around my house. And I also do pumpkin baking and cooking.

With that being said – in this season in cardmaking I’m very traditional too and when I’m thinking about a card theme it’s always fall or winter holidays.

So the card I’m sharing today as you may see is a fall one. I decided to kind of invert colors and make leaves white with the very fallish background. The technique I used here is die-cut inlay.

First I die-cut several leaves out of a white panel using dies from the With Gratitude Die Set. It’s a set of matching dies for the With Gratitude Stamp Set. But they can be totally used as standalone dies too.
With this technique you first die cut an element you want to be kind of on top. And then die cut the one located right after it. And so on. The same idea as with masking.

I trimmed the panel edges to make it of 5×3 3/4 and adhered onto a white card base. And then adhered all elements inside of their negative die-cuts. You can see that some white die-cuts go behind the orange panel – that’s what I was going for. When I was die-cutting them initially I new that I want to create this effect and was placing some dies pretty close to the edge.

Lastly I added several Rain Drops. Those are like round clear drops, but in a shape of a rain drop. Absolutely must have for fall cards 🙂

PRIZES

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to five lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by Wednesday, October 31st for a chance to win. Five winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 11/4/2018.

I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by 11/1/2018 for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on 11/2/2018.

SUPPLIES

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I truly appreciate your support!

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Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda BL

October 25, 2018

Loved the white diecut leaves inlaid into the Autumn Blaze panel. Striking combination. Enjoyed your story about fall/ pumpkin/ Halloween. I now live in Virginia after having lived in Florida for many years. Leaves are starting to turn and I want to gather as many brightly colored ones as I can to decorate with.

Sue D

Edina

Carol Rossouw

October 30, 2018

Some of my most favourite Altenew products are my layering dies. I love the Fantasy floral dies and the Rose flurries and the Peony Dream flowers that these dies make. Thanks for the fantastic inspiration!

Charlotte Deerborn

Mindy Drummond

October 30, 2018

I’m not usually much for the orangey colors but your card looks awesome! I think the white inlaid leaves make it look so cool lol, I love it! And speaking of love…. yep those SK clear rain drops – one can never have enough hehe. Thanks for sharing your card and for the inspiration, I may just have to do something in an orangey color after all this fall 🙂 (mardy14@bellsouth.net)